IEEE 802.11 Mandatory Letter Ballot 178 for 802.11ac Draft 1.0 Starts Today IEEE 802.11(TM) Letter Ballot 178 To: IEEE 802.11 Voters, With this email, the 802.11 Working Group is officially beginning WG Technical Letter Ballot 178 (LB178), which is a ballot on the question "Should P802.11ac D1.0 be forwarded to Sponsor Ballot?". This Ballot opens Thu May 26, 2011 at 23:59 Eastern Time USA (11:59PM) and will close 30 days later on Sat Jun 25, 2011 at 23:59 Eastern Time USA (11:59pm). All necessary documents are available in the instructions that can be found on the IEEE 802.11 web site at http://www.ieee802.org/11/LetterBallots/LB178ac/LB178_instructions.html. Important: 1. All ieee 802.11 voting members are required to vote. Not voting on letter ballots can affect your voting privileges. If your name does not appear on the voters list and you believe you are an IEEE 802.11 voter, you must vote and contact Adrian Stephens (adrian.p.stephens@intel.com). 2. You must follow the instructions on the 802.11 web site to vote. Do not send an email to vote. 3. You will need your secret 802.11 Voting ID to vote. This number has been emailed to you by the WG vice chair. If you have lost this number, ask the WG vice chair for it. Do not use your meeting badge number or SA pin number as these are different. 4. If you provide comments, they must use the comment template provided. Do not supply individual comments or your vote may be invalidated. (The attached file contains a reminder set for 5 days before the close of the ballot. You may find it helpful to import this into or open this with your calendar client in order to get an automated reminder.) Thank you for participating in Letter Ballot 178. Bruce Kraemer, IEEE 802.11 Working Group Chair E-mail: bkraemer@marvell.com Adrian Stephens, IEEE 802.11 Working Group Vice Chair / Balloting Coordinator E-mail: Adrian.P.Stephens@intel.com Osama Aboul-Magd, IEEE 802.11 TGac Chair E-mail: osama.magd@samsung.com